RE-ADVERTISED
CENTRE FOR MEDICAL STATISTICS at KEELE
The Centre is searching for an able candidate to nominate for a CASE
studentship in Statistical Modelling Applied to Trauma
Systems Evaluation.
North Staffordshire is a major centre for research intoTrauma Systems
and their Evaluation. The Centre for Medical Statistics is
closely involved with the local Trauma Research Group.
The Centre is seeking to nominate an able student, with, or about to
receive, a good 1st class honours degree in Statistics, or
preferably, an MSc in Statistics, Biostatistics or Medical Statistics,
from a recognised University.
The project will involve, inter alia, the development of appropriate
frailty models, parametric and non-parametric, for the evaluation
outcomes (mortality and survival) in the North Staffordshire Hospital's
Trauma (NSHT) database. One aim of the study is to
model outcome accurately when, as is usual in trauma studies, the
measured covariate vector does not contain all of the important
covariates.
In the case of non-parametric frailty, the resulting mixture may be of
unknown dimension and we aim to compare the RJMCMC
approach of Richardson and Green (1997) with more conventional E-M
approaches. The effect of the use of non-parametric
MLE procedures to impute missing values in the X space - a common
problem in trauma data - will also be investigated.
The project will also involve the student in more practical work such as
comparing outcomes in the NSHT database with other
national databases (TARN, ICNARC etc) and facilitating good statistical
practice among the doctors and nurses working in the
Trauma Research Group.
Normal CASE studentship terms apply and the successful student will
have the usual EPSRC grant supplemented (c£3000pa) by
the North Staffordshire Trauma Research Group in the North Staffordshire
Acute (NHS) Trust. The proposed starting date is
October 1st 2001.
It is intended that the studentship will be based in the Centre for
Medical Statistics on Keele's pleasant 617 acre rural campus
which is 2/3 miles away from the Trauma Centre. However, it is expected
that the student will enjoy spending periods of time
working closely with the trauma research team in the hospital throughout
the project.
The Student will be jointly supervised by Prof. Gilbert MacKenzie,
Director of the Centre for Medical Statistics, Keele University,
Keele, and Dr. Peter Oakley, Senior Trauma Consultant, NS Hospital.
Students interested in this exciting project should address informal
enquiries in the first instance to Professor Gilbert MacKenzie
(details below).
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Prof. Gilbert MacKenzie
Director,
Centre for Medical Statistics
Keele University
Staffordshire ST5 5BG
England
Email: [log in to unmask]
Tel: (01782) 583651
Fax: (01782) 584268
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